african american youth

Discusses the 1963 Birmingham Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama.

Indigo Summer must prove she can withstand the pressure when her boyfriend Marcus is arrested for a crime he did not commit, she tries to lose weight in order to keep her spot on the dance team, and her best friend Jade moves back to Atlanta and becomes involved with their good-looking history teacher.

Indigo Summer and her boyfriend Marcus Carter decide to see other people while they are on summer vacation, but when Indigo gets in over her head while staying with her independent cousin, she knows Marcus is the only person who can help her.

Mamie Till-Mobley discusses the effect on her life of the murder of her son, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman, and tells how she was able to go on after his death to become a teacher and an activist in the civil rights struggle.

Describes how the Philadelphia police's use of arrest warrants, high-tech surveillance, and questioning of family, friends, and employers in the pursuit of suspects has demoralized poor neighborhods in the city and has a negative impact on all of the residents in these areas.

Presents the argument that the so-called war on drugs has done nothing to actually stop the illegal purchasing and using of drugs in America. Discusses the, for all intents and purposes, police surveillance states that have arisen in poor neighborhoods due to drug crackdowns.

Describes the neighborhood-based social life of the African-American middle class, based on a study of Chicago's Groveland community, looking at how racial segregation, changing economic structures, and poverty affect the residential experience of African-American middle class families, and especially youth.

Presents oral histories of African American young men from Oakland, California, featuring their responses to prompts such as "what is your greatest strength," "if you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be," and "describe your life in 10 years.".

"In the early morning hours of December 8, 1969, hundreds of SWAT officers engaged in a violent battle with a handful of Los Angeles-based members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPP). Five hours and 5,000 rounds of ammunition later, three SWAT team members and three Black Panthers lay wounded. For the Panthers and the community that supported them, the shootout symbolized a victory, and a key reason for that victory was the actions of a 19-year-old rank-and-file member of the BPP: Wayne Pharr. Nine Lives of a Black Panther tells Pharr's riveting story of life in the Los Angeles branch of the BPP and gives a blow-by-blow account of how it prepared for and survived the massive attack. He illuminates the history of one of the most dedicated, dynamic, vilified, and targeted chapters of the BPP, filling in a missing piece of Black Panther history and, in the process, creating an engaging and hard-to-put-down memoir about a time and place that holds tremendous fascination for readers interested in African American militancy"--.

Tells the true story of Ramon "Tru" Dixon and how he came to be involved in creating a little league baseball team from a group of underprivileged kids who might otherwise be heading for a life of crime and gang violence.